Get started with R programming in 5 easy steps

A guide on getting started with R

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1/ Install R

Download and install R on your computer.

This can easily be done by visiting the CRAN website (cran.r-project.org/) and following the instructions for your operating system.

2/ Install R Studio

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R.

You can download and install RStudio from the RStudio website (rstudio.com/).

3/ Learn the basics

Some of the resources include

www.datacamp.com/courses/free-introduction-to-r

www.coursera.org/specializations/data-science-foundations-r

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjqLW-u3hc&list=PL5-da3qGB5IBM6DdZ-ZV8mA0oV0U56xaq

r4ds.had.co.nz/

4/ Practice

The best way to learn any programming language is to practice, so try to find some datasets and start working with them in R.

Kaggle (www.kaggle.com/)

UCI Machine Learning Repository (archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/index.php).

5/ Join a community

R has a vibrant and helpful community of users, so don't hesitate to reach out for help or advice.

You can find other R users on forums like Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com/) or Reddit (www.reddit.com/r/rstats/)

You can also use #rstats on twitter

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